Previous Page: He envisaged that if the record labels were made red the upper crust of the community would willingly pay extra for this prestige series. Both the Deutsche Gramophone Company and their head office in England approved of the idea. With the approval by both these companies it brought about the first of the Red Seal label operatic records that was imported to the USA in 1903. England on the other hand refused to register a colour as a trademark, but regardless of England's refusal; registrations were secured in France and the U.S.A. These 10" and 12" records became a viable source of income for the Victor Talking Machine Company. With the Victor Company introducing a young Enrico Caruso to the world of music in which more than 130,000,000 red-label records sold worldwide up to the year of 1942 with prices ranging from $1 to $7 in US currency. Some artists respectively received higher payments than popular singers did and organizations of the royalty system of payment were not yet a primary pattern. 1910 saw the singer Sophie Tucker being paid a sum of $100 per song with no royalties. For many years, all recording discs were one-sided until a bright sparks by the name Ademor Petit came up with the idea of placing musical selections on both sides. | 
